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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience of Music

Background:

  • Music is a universal human experience influencing emotion, action, and brain development.
  • Traditional music perception studies focused on passive auditory processing.
  • Emerging research highlights the active, predictive nature of music listening.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the cognitive neuroscience of music perception.
  • To present the predictive coding of music model.
  • To extend this model to collective music making and creativity.

Main Methods:

  • Review of cognitive neuroscience literature on music perception.
  • Analysis of brain mechanisms underlying music processing.
  • Integration of findings within the predictive coding framework.

Main Results:

  • Music perception, action, emotion, and learning are fundamentally based on prediction.
  • The predictive coding of music model offers a unified framework.
  • This model extends to explain collective music making and improvisation.

Conclusions:

  • The brain's predictive capacity is central to understanding music perception and expertise.
  • Predictive coding provides a neuroscientific basis for musical creativity and collective music making.
  • This perspective deepens our understanding of music's profound impact on human experience.